Just curious, did anyone actually test with my suggestion from comment 40? That is, just make your partition table change (and update the kernel with partx or whatever, of course), and after it's done trigger --settle udev for the device. Be interesting to know if that actually fixes it or not.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-azure in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1834875 Title: cloud-init growpart race with udev Status in cloud-init: Incomplete Status in cloud-utils: New Status in linux-azure package in Ubuntu: New Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On Azure, it happens regularly (20-30%), that cloud-init's growpart module fails to extend the partition to full size. Such as in this example: ======================================== 2019-06-28 12:24:18,666 - util.py[DEBUG]: Running command ['growpart', '--dry-run', '/dev/sda', '1'] with allowed return codes [0] (shell=False, capture=True) 2019-06-28 12:24:19,157 - util.py[DEBUG]: Running command ['growpart', '/dev/sda', '1'] with allowed return codes [0] (shell=False, capture=True) 2019-06-28 12:24:19,726 - util.py[DEBUG]: resize_devices took 1.075 seconds 2019-06-28 12:24:19,726 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: finish: init-network/config-growpart: FAIL: running config-growpart with frequency always 2019-06-28 12:24:19,727 - util.py[WARNING]: Running module growpart (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_growpart' from '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_growpart.py'>) failed 2019-06-28 12:24:19,727 - util.py[DEBUG]: Running module growpart (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_growpart' from '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_growpart.py'>) failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 812, in _run_modules freq=freq) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cloud.py", line 54, in run return self._runners.run(name, functor, args, freq, clear_on_fail) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/helpers.py", line 187, in run results = functor(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_growpart.py", line 351, in handle func=resize_devices, args=(resizer, devices)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 2521, in log_time ret = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_growpart.py", line 298, in resize_devices (old, new) = resizer.resize(disk, ptnum, blockdev) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_growpart.py", line 159, in resize return (before, get_size(partdev)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_growpart.py", line 198, in get_size fd = os.open(filename, os.O_RDONLY) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/disk/by-partuuid/a5f2b49f-abd6-427f-bbc4-ba5559235cf3' ======================================== @rcj suggested this is a race with udev. This seems to only happen on Cosmic and later. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1834875/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
